Ad-hoc coalition not an ideal solution but...
YOURSAY ‘It is in Selangor that the Pakatan problem is harder to fix.’
RIP Pakatan - informal pact to rule S'gor, Penang
Fair Play: Here is how I read the situation. Selangor PAS adun (state assembly representatives), or a few of them, agree to form a coalition government with DAP and PKR adun independent of PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang to rule as a coalition government until the next GE.
This proposal would probably be agreeable with HRH (His Royal Highness) Sultan of Selangor.
This is much better than calling a snap election in the light of the present economic and political situation afflicting the nation.
Ferdtan: It is not an ideal solution to the Pakatan Rakyat problem. We wonder how long the loose coalition rule in Penang and Selangor will last. Then what? Fight again come the next 14th general election in three-cornered contests?
It is in Selangor that the problem is harder to fix. There is no problem in Penang with PKR as partner in government.
PKR, don’t delay too long. Once the problem of the internal power struggle in Umno is settled; with or without PM Najib Razak remaining in his post, you can be sure BN will not let go of the opportunity to capture the country’s richest state, Selangor, by hook or by crook.
Don’t say we have not warned you.
Fair Play: Ferdtan, look at it this way. If a person can't live beyond today, why should he worry about tomorrow?
Perhaps that's what DAP and PKR are trying to do until a longer term solution is found.
Anonymous 731691434514996: For solidly backing and defending DSAI (Anwar Ibrahim) and PKR against attacks by Hadi, Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail assigns equal blame to DAP as she does to PAS.
The current PKR leadership may not want to admit it, but the rakyat are not stupid and we know betrayal when we see it.
It looks like PKR and PAS share the same set of moral values. PKR and DSAI help PAS to be accepted in mainstream politics, giving them the Pakatan platform to reach out to moderate Malays and non-Malays.
PAS repays this comradeship with betrayal, not once but on several consecutive occasions. On each occasion of PAS attacks on PKR and DSAI, DAP stands firmly with PKR, endorsing quickly and openly DSAI and PKR's leadership of Pakatan as well as voting en bloc in support of PKR's decisions.
PKR repays this loyalty by assigning blame to DAP for this Pakatan break-up. In effect, PKR has turned around to slap DAP for blunting and deflecting PAS attacks.
PKR is like PAS while PAS is like Umno. Now trending, back-stabbers unite.
Oh Ya?: Coalition governments just to sustain their hold to power? Where is their political morality? Is there any difference between them and Umno-BN? This is not what the 52% of voters bargained for.
If they still have any principle, integrity and political morality, they should seek a fresh mandate from the voters. Otherwise, they would be punished severely in GE14 for betraying the voters' trust, period.
Prudent: Kak Wan, please go for dissolution and call a snap state election in Selangor before you are betrayed again. PKR and DAP have more than an even chance of winning.
What's more if PKR and DAP combo wins, you can take over the MB posts and enter GE14 in strength.
If PKR enters GE14 with Azmin Ali as MB and with PAS still in the Selangor state government, it is likely that they will sabotage you and the opposition forces again.
The Analyser: Prudent, I think Azmin is being very smart by not calling a snap election.
The basic facts are that the people of Selangor chose the candidates they wanted on the basis of hope. That hope no longer exists and I suspect that in many minds, hope has been replaced by frustration and disillusionment... not only of PAS, but of all three members of the ill-fated coalition.
In the minds of many voters, the only answer to their disillusionment is to not vote, because the alternatives to their hopes are untenable. If the anti-Umno clique fails to vote, then there can only be one outcome.
The prolonged agony of the death of Pakatan is really nothing more than the so-called leaders coming to terms with their failure.
In the minds of the voters, the people who really matter in politics, the coalition died many months ago. Anything that has happened subsequently has only reinforced the voters’ assessment that the coalition had failed them.
Chee Hoe Siew: I am really disappointed with PKR. It is supposed to be the leader of the coalition and yet we are seeing a highly indecisive entity among the team.
It practically sat on the fence when PAS decided to sever ties with DAP, and now it blamed both parties for acting badly?
It seems to me that PKR is trying to hang on to its prized asset. I do not see any future with PKR from here on.
Ah Hoe: PKR is in an awkward position, knowing it depends on both PAS and DAP for the Malay-Muslim and Chinese votes respectively. It can't afford to offend both.
Hplooi: OK, we have a coalition of expediency. But the coalition will have to, from now on, watch their back as PAS may backstab the coalition government.
I can already foresee the ramping up of religious issues. It also does not help when the defender of faith and apex symbol of all Selangor rakyat is firmly on the side of the reactionaries.
So the long-term view (tunnelling towards the next GE) must be taken to protect our flank and guard against the fifth columnist. And in the next GE, the slate must be wiped clean (in truth, the 'wiping clean' campaign should start now).
Hello: PKR understandably wants to hold on to its leadership of the Selangor state government even though it has the lowest number of elected assemblypersons.
That is why it is coming out with statements that are neither here nor there. If PKR continues it cooperation with PAS, they must be aware that PAS will do a Brutus on it.
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